This preface describes the new features and certifications for the components in Oracle Exalytics T5-8 Machine for Oracle Solaris, Release 1 (1.0).
The Oracle Exalytics for Oracle Solaris Release 1 (1.0) includes additional certifications and new capabilities for the components that are described in the following sections:
Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM for SPARC supports connection to InfiniBand.
The following new application software component releases are certified to run on Oracle Exalytics T5-8 Machine for Oracle Solaris, Release 1 (1.0).
For the latest application software component certifications on Exalytics, see the Oracle Exalytics Certification Matrix at the following location:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/fusion-certification-100350.html
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.7.140715 includes a number of bug fixes for the components that comprise Oracle Exalytics. These bug fixes are described in the component-specific ReadMe files.
Enhancements to Oracle TimesTen for Exalytics 11.2.2.6 include the following:
Significant improvements on query performance for Oracle BI EE in Oracle Exalytics
Enhanced SQL Optimizer enables faster query response time for selected Oracle Business Intelligence applications (e.g. Financials, CRM)
Reduction in SQL prepare time enables faster data retrieval for Oracle BI EE Dashboard reporting
Additional star-join query optimizations speeds up query response time for data marts and aggregations
Improved SQL execution plan selection and generation
Enhanced Index Advisor enables more precise recommendation
SQL Developer 4.0 Integration
New Data Loading wizard for populating TimesTen tables using existing data from the Oracle Database
New Index Advisor wizard for query performance tuning
New Performance Metrics wizard to simplify performance reporting
Quick Start Guide: New How-To guide for data loading and query performance tuning
For information, see the "Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database" documentation at the following link:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/timesten/documentation/index.html
The link to the "Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database" documentation is also available from the Oracle Exalytics Documentation library.
For information on using new Essbase features such as using runtime substitution variables in calculation scripts, see the following:
The "Oracle Essbase New Features Release 11.1.2.3" document at the following location:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E40248_01/epm.1112/essbase_new_features/essbase_new_features.html
Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide Release 11.1.2.3 at the following location:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E40248_01/epm.1112/epm_install.pdf